Management Techniques

In the company I work for, in the area I am responsible for, a lot of stress is caused by stressed customers. In parallel to software development, lots of high-management issues raise in a daily basis. I am thinking more and more about adopting daily simplified scrum meetings.

Here goes an excerpt of these meetings (http://en.wikipedia.org/...Simplified_Scrum):

These status discussions don't take long, so one way is to do standup meetings where the team meets in front of a whiteboard. Because people tend to get tired after lunch, having a lively standup meeting at that time may keep their energy up. Because everybody has already been working that day, their minds are focused on the job and not on their personal issues.

This is a quite interesting technique, as compared with other kinds of Project Management techniques, for example boring long-run regular meetings.

A more exhaustive approach is to have real scrum meetings, as described at wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/...Scrum_meetings